Stalking Ivory
Jade del Cameron Series No. 2
by Suzanne Arruda
If you read and enjoyed Mark of the Lion (also
reviewed on this site) as much as I did, then
you will be thrilled to see that here is another book in the series. Jade del Cameron is on a photography
assignment in British East Africa in company with her friends, Avery and Beverly Dunbury. She hopes to get film
in particular of elephants - but other people keep shooting them, with guns rather than cameras. When a dead man
is also found among the newly slaughtered carcasses it looks as though poachers must be in the area, but Jade is
not so sure. With the war a recent memory, what is Harry Hascombe doing with a party of suspicious Germans? Why
does a cave reveal a cache of German rifles? Jade is determined to find out the answers.
I wondered whether such a cracking series opener would manage a second book of the same caliber but I need
not have worried. This is another book in the same style, and boasting yet another inventive tale that is sure
to appeal to those who love wildlife conservation as well as good adventure stories. There are even references
to Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan books, so truly my cup runneth over - Jade, intrepid as Nancy Drew, makes the
whole thing into a Boys’ Own Paper story for a mixed audience. There is even a frisson of the
supernatural, if you choose to see that part of the story in this light (wisely this is optional). The plot
about poachers and endangered species makes the book appeal to modern readers, while keeping the characters’
opinions firmly in the period. I hope this series runs and runs. Hugely enjoyable? You bet! |
The Book |
New American Library |
4 December 2007 |
Paperback |
0451221680 / 978-0451221681 |
Historical Crime / 1920, Kenya |
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The Reviewer |
Rachel A Hyde |
Reviewed 2008 |
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